A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING NEW GARDEN IDENTITIES

Abstract

Gardens are created by people based on their needs, culture, and philosophy. They possess specific individual features or identities shaped through time, depending on people’s tastes and preferences as well as the surrounding environment. However, developing gardens do not own specific and distinct identities to distinguish them. In fact, even the visual quality and contents of these emerging gardens are not yet clear and continue to evolve over time.  Nevertheless, these gardens like established ones need their own identities, which should be based on local people’s needs, cultures, philosophy, and preferences. In developing identity for a new garden the reverse could be the case, i.e. the existing gardens can be studied to illicit a general model. In this regard, this study proposes a working model that could contribute to the development of new garden identities. Accordingly, it is argued that the model would be applicable to all communities interested to create their gardens with specific identity.